FusionReactor supports three different types (or levels) of user account:
Administrators
Managers
Observers
Note: FusionReactor does not have individual users with user names and passwords, but three fixed accounts each of which has it's own password.
Administrator is the most powerful type of user account in FusionReactor. They are able to access all of the functions available in FusionReactor including (Note: some points are only available on Enterprise Versions):
Creating and Maintaining New Instances of FusionReactor on a Computer
Configuring the FusionReactor instances visible to the Enterprise Dashboard
Configure Crash Protection and all other settings for an instance of FusionReactor
Managing All User Accounts
Uploading and Activation of License Keys
Examine All Request and Metric Data
Kill Running Requests
The Administrator should be used by users who need to create and maintain the instances of FusionReactor on computer, setup and manage the instances that are visible on any Enterprise Dashboard and maintain the user accounts. For example, in hosting environments this account might be used by the hosting company to configure FusionReactor for customers on their application server instances.
Managers are "Instance Administrators". They Manage or Administer a single instance of FusionReactor. They are able to (Note: some points are only available on Enterprise Versions) :
Configuring the FusionReactor instances visible on this instance's Enterprise Dashboard
Add instances visible on this instance's Enterprise Dashboard (if they have the Administrator account password for the instance they wish to add)
Online and Offline Servers in the Enterprise Dashboard
Configure Crash Protection and all other settings for this instance of FusionReactor
Managing Their User Account and the Observer Account
Examine All Request and Metric Data for this instance
Kill Running Requests
The Manager account should be used by users who need to manage or administer an application server. For example, in hosting environments this account might be used by the customer's application administrator.
Observers are only able to view the following information on a specific instance (Note: some points are only available on Enterprise Versions):
View the Running Request
View the Request History
View the Request Log
View the Enterprise Dashboard
View the System Metrics
View the Longest Requests, Slow Request and Longest JDBC Request Reports
View the Resource Reports and Graphs
View the Resource Log, Crash Protection Log and JDBC Log
View the Help and About Information
The Observer account should be used by users who need to examine the performance and metrics from an application server. For example, in hosting environments this account might be used by the customer's application developers to examine how well the application performs in production.
When a user clicks on a link on the Enterprise Dashboard for a monitored server they are transferred to that server instance of FusionReactor with the same level of User account that they are logged in as. For example, this means that a Manager on an instance that is monitoring another instance of FusionReactor, will be granted Manager level access to the other instance of FusionReactor.